ABSTRACT
Supercritical fluids (SCFs) are increasingly finding applications as high-pressure media in analytic chemistry or for chemical synthesis. This chapter describes the structure and physical properties of diamondoids and their possible applications before introducing the techniques used for realizing chemical reactions by PLA in high-pressure and SCF media. It provides an overview on conventional synthesis approaches of diamondoids and their limitations. The chapter discusses the generation of pulsed laser plasmas in supercritical fluids and their application for the fabrication of nanomaterials, especially diamondoids. It develops a short introduction on SCFs, their main physical properties, and some of their current applications. The chapter also describes the application of PLA in scXe and scCO2 for the synthesis of diamondoids. Besides the generation of pulsed laser plasmas in vacuum, pulsed laser ablation plasmas have found increased use in liquids, for both the synthesis and functionalization of nanomaterials.
